Sacramento County
Biographies
CHARLES E. WILSON
CHARLES E. WILSON.--A public-spirited
American who has been privileged, as a well-trained, experienced and practical
man, to render a valuable service to California, is
Charles E. Wilson, a native of Indianapolis, Ind.
where he was born on November 29, 1866, and now residing on a ranch south of Herald. His father was Anthony Mullen Wilson, a
native of Kentucky and a building contractor, who had moved to Paris, Monroe
County, Mo., with his good wife, who was Miss Susan Anderson before her
marriage, and their six-year-old boy, our subject, and had there followed his
line of trade; he passed away at the age of seventy-eight, his wife breathing
her last when fifty-four years old. Both
were highly esteemed.
Charles
E. Wilson was one of a family of six children, and along with the rest he was
given the best educational advantages of his home-section. He attended Strother College
in Missouri, and when of age, he
started out into the world for himself.
He came out to California and Sacramento
in 1886, but went on to Butte County
and lived at Chico for a year. And after that he spent one year as foreman
of the Reavis Ranch at Napa. Next he went to San Jose
and was employed as an attendant in the State
Hospital at Agnew for eleven years,
and during the last year there he was supervisor of all male employes. Upon
leaving there he received an appointment to the same kind of position at the
Ukiah State Hospital, where
he spent four years. He then became
secretary to the Ukiah medical superintendent, and remained in that capacity
from 1904 to 1915.
In
the latter year, Mr. Wilson came to Herald, Sacramento
County, and purchased twenty acres
of the Allen ranch, which is devoted to fruit, and has 1,000 sugar-prune trees,
400 peach trees, and 100 trees of family orchard, making 1,500 fruit trees in
all. This ranch is irrigated by two
three-inch pumps, driven by eight and six horse power engines; and our subject
set out the trees himself. Mr. Wilson
also owns eighty acres of land, used as a stock ranch, in Clay County, Oregon.
Mr.
Wilson is a graduate of Kent’s School
of Law, then in San Jose
and now one of the famous institutions of higher learning in San
Francisco; and he has been admitted to practice in all the courts
of the State of California. In 1918, he was elected justice of the peace
in Alabama Township,
Sacramento County,
and he vacated this office on January 8, 1923, leaving behind an enviable
record for insight, devotion to patriotic duty and fairness to all.
At
San Rafael, on September 15, 1908, Mr. Wilson was married
to Miss Charlotte Zipf, a native of Idaho,
and the daughter of the well-known pioneer, Albert Zipf. Mr. Wilson joined the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows in 1890, and he now belongs to the lodge at San
Jose. Politically he is a Republican.
Transcribed
by Priscilla Delventhal.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History
of Sacramento County, California With Biographical Sketches, Pages 978-979.
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 P. J. Delventhal.